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Thread poster: Christiane Feldmann-Leben
Christiane Feldmann-Leben
Christiane Feldmann-Leben  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 09:24
Member (2009)
Japanese to German
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Jun 17, 2020

I do PE with memoq (server based, memq 9.2.7) and I always have the problem that there are too many spaces (space tab space). I need to delete these spaces manually. Is there any way with search and replace to search for this string " tab " and replace it with "tab"?
 
Stepan Konev
Stepan Konev  Identity Verified
Russian Federation
Local time: 10:24
English to Russian
Workaround Jun 18, 2020

Hi Christiane,
I don't know how to isolate tab tags among other inline tags, but if you only have tab tags with leading and trailing spaces, you can replace " (\itag) " with "$1" (remove quotation marks when doing so). The regex mode should be turned on and the 'Search within tags as well' checkbox unchecked.
This covers all inline tags (red and grey 'bricks'). So, if you have both tab- and non-tab tags, maybe it is worthy of filtering all segments that contain inline tags (Advanced ... See more
Hi Christiane,
I don't know how to isolate tab tags among other inline tags, but if you only have tab tags with leading and trailing spaces, you can replace " (\itag) " with "$1" (remove quotation marks when doing so). The regex mode should be turned on and the 'Search within tags as well' checkbox unchecked.
This covers all inline tags (red and grey 'bricks'). So, if you have both tab- and non-tab tags, maybe it is worthy of filtering all segments that contain inline tags (Advanced filters > Tags and QA > Source has inline tags) and lock those with non-tab inline tags. Then replace all the remaining tab tags.


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